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Re: Court Strikes Down Hand-Gun Ban
Old 06-28-2010, 09:32 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Typhoid View Post
It only says that because the British were coming.
The British already came. Then they left.
I don't think they're coming back.
Well not exactly. When you look through historical documents, what you see is at least some of the Founding Fathers considered the Second Amendment to be a stopguard against tyranny. At the time, it was the British. But later on, it could be anybody including the US government itself. The people were supposed to have a right to defend themselves against tyrannical rule (and home invasion).

The problem is these days there's no way anybody with a bunch of rifles could possibly overthrow our government, so that whole justification no longer works. Nonetheless, it is clear that the people were meant to have guns so that they could protect their homes and their property. What that means today has yet to be decided.
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